INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA has invited 26 coaches who aspire to be head coaches at member colleges and universities to its Football Coaches Academy, June 29 – July 1, in Indianapolis.
The Academy is designed to reinforce various aspects of securing, managing and excelling in head football coaching positions at the intercollegiate level. The participants are current football coaches at NCAA colleges and universities who have up to eight years of experience coaching football.
The NCAA Diversity and Inclusion department administers the program, which better prepares coaches for many of the situations and issues they will experience at the head coaching level through program sessions and networking opportunities with current head coaches. The NCAA National Office does not have the authority to mandate hiring decisions at its member colleges and universities, but it provides administrators and coaches with opportunities to further enhance their skills and exposes them to key decision makers in academics and athletics.
The following are the football coaches invited to the 2008 NCAA Football Coaches Program:
• Theron Aych, assistant coach, University of Central Missouri
• Chris Beatty, running back and slot receivers coach, West Virginia University
• Cheston Blackshear, offensive line coach, Columbia University
• Keith Braxton, assistant football coach, Edinboro University of PA
• Cornelius Corprew, wide receiver coach/head track coach, Livingstone College
• Ulrick Edmonds, recruiting coordinator, running back coach, James Madison University
• Steve Ellis, defensive coordinator & defensive backs coach, Nicholls State University
• Joseph Gaither, recruiting coordinator, Winston-Salem State University
• Ernest Henderson, assistant football coach, Princeton University
• William Jackson, offensive coordinator, Frostburg State University
• Bruce Johnson, special teams coordinator & offensive line coach, Jackson State University
• Omar King, assistant football coach, Long Island University-CW Post campus
• Jimmy Lindsey, defensive ends/co-special teams coordinator, Miami University (Ohio)
• Van Malone, assistant football coach, Texas A&M University
• Kevin Moore, assistant football coach, Catholic University
• Michael Morand, offensive coordinator, Virginia State University
• Jeffrey Parker, pass game coordinator, Norfolk State University
• Jeffrey Phelps, assistant football coach, Northern Illinois University
• Jason Phillips, assistant coach, University of Houston
• Sidney Powell, assistant coach, Ball State University
• Marshall Roberts, secondary coach, Liberty University
• John Scott, defensive line coach, Western Carolina University
• Junior Smith, assistant coach, East Carolina University
• Willie Taggart, assistant coach, Stanford University
• Floyd Webb, assistant coach, Grinnell College
• Terrell Williams, defensive line coach, Purdue University
NCAA staff, administrators in their respective fields of expertise and guest coaches lead all Academy sessions. The Academy sessions focus on professional conduct skills and training, NCAA compliance, finance and budget development, media training and networking.
Other sessions focus on becoming a defensive or offensive coordinator; working with athletics directors; and assistant coach salaries and contracts. Additionally, coaches have opportunities to participate in one-on-one and group discussions with head coaches and other key representatives in the academic and athletic fields.
The NCAA began its Football Coaches Academy Program in 2004. Of the current 119 Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) head football coaches, six are African-American, one is Asian/ Pacific Islander, and one is Latino. Three percent of head football coaches in all NCAA divisions are ethnic minorities, excluding the historically black coaches and universities. The coaches represent Division I, II and III colleges and universities.
Additionally, the NCAA hosts an Expert Coaches Academy program, which also provides skill enhancement for coaches who have more than eight years of coaching experience.
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